I have been experiencing Jesus’ call “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men” in a new way this Lenten season.

Each week in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.

Sixty-three years after King wrote those words from Birmingham to the world, we find ourselves, one more time, at the intersection of solidarity and resistance.

Our personal piety, our worship, and our ministry as Christ’s church must address the climate crisis just as we have historically addressed social, economic, racial, and gender justice as Gospel issues.    

I always look forward to Ramadan to charge my spiritual batteries for the rest of the year. It reminds me who I am before God and how I am called to live in the world.